Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1887-02-03

ai ei'ce Is mere, devotional and lit
urgical aspiration is here Each here in its
place, and all here, because here thew belong.
And this glory is ours. Made fer US. We
made for it; how other~ise can we sac h,t
That our manhood is to take rot. 70 grow nm
10 exp nd out upon these line Souls re-
generate. cruciied with Christ. rising with
linn. with affections set on things above;
niied with the spirit, growing up into Him in
all things which is the Head.
Inc proportion of faith. the DEVELOPMENT of
MANHOOD, Is the c3nservator of the world
DO We not need this balance? Is society
so strong TODAY that il can De its own con.
serVator! Can society regenerate itself? Can
II regulate its unruly forces? Can il keen
Its Relationships in order. control its wild i'm
pulses. Its fancitul vagaries, its communjstic
aspirations, its lusttul propensities, its labor
reVolts. Its wealth expressions? Can men
learn of what they owe not only to G ID but
TO their fellow men! Can the home keep it's
purity, labor its patience, wealth its eqiitv,
save and only as proportionate religion pre-
serves herown order. and binds men together,
not In unwilling bondage, but with holy
aisCipllne IN Intelligent service and mutual
heipfulness and Christ-like sympathy?
10 speaking OF the third attribute of the
building of God, the church, the preacher
said; Beauty is an adornment not arbitrarily
appended to cover up the severer lines
necessltated by the demands of construction,
but the outgrowth and corollary of the
strong. For beauty is that OF eternal wisdom
whlch made the nrst earth Paradise, the
heavens to declare the glory of God" and
the perfect man full OF grace, as of truth,
IDEAL IN form and in character. Zone Of ten
Thousand and altogether lovely"
Hence we look tor and fini this attribute of
attraction and loveableness in the church of
the First born She is the BRIDE arrayed in
raiment clean and white, without spot or
wrinkle, with clothing all glorious without
and W thin. To men VINO rise up in faith to
regard her, "she Is crown of glory and a
diadem Of BEAUTY" Strong proportionate
grace only completes its operation by unfold
ing IN human character the lines and color
ing of the inestimable gifts of the spirit,
That men might know that christian char
acter is after this fashion, to grow and
blossom forth in beauty, the church puts forth
her faith not only in the exact and proper
tionate form of the creed but in the stately
and graceful order Of liturgic worship.
The faith which may be apprehended 10 the
abstract by strong reason, must appeal to as
we'll as train the imaginative sense. For
divine truth is objective; it has a reality and
power of its own, and that we NAV properly
realize its nature as SUCH it must be objec
lively put; it embodies itself in solemn and
graceful language, in BETTING attitudes, in
expressive signs.
Hence too, the shrine of worship follows
the spirit and the form OF worship, becomes
formulated into parts and order, and adorn-
ment, az by natural progression.
The material building is the out-growth Of
the spiritual house, its spiritual employ ments
and aims. Church architecture derives its in
spration and form from the uses and asplra-
ton, from the souls apprehension of the
reverent, and graceful, the beautiful in the
religion of Jesus Christ And il men have,
in our age or another, made ''havoc of the
houses of God in the land. ''breaking down
all the carved work thereof with axes and
hammers" or if they have built for them
selves debased and barren models, it has
been either through some outburst Of fanati
cal ZEAL or through some lowering or loss
of the church idea, beclouding of their
sense of the aspiring. of the beautiful and
the glorious, all of which is of the very es-
sence of the revelation of Jesus Christ. The
beauty of the house then and the sense of
beauty. is religions refining medium 1t is
the church's witness against the unc0uth
ness of sin, the protest of grace against the
coarseness and sordidness of the world, the
incentive to all holier aspirations, the fore
taste of the divine beauty and converse of the
house eternal.
In closing, the preacher said, "How gladly
how gratefully we recognize this work tine
answer to prayers long while uttered and all
along pleading. In the fulness of time His
gracious answer has come. in completeness
beyond our hopes, without hindrance and with
out accident.
,f 10 thnl t,ar
response of the people, the talent of the
architect the skill of the builder and the
faithful overseership have been the human
instruments of the dvire Ariticer in max
ing this house, with its strong foundations,
its symmetrical order and rich adornmsnts,
the portrayal of the steadfast, the proportion
ate and the beautiful. And this Temple
made with hands, bearing these marks of the
body of Christ, we have now given by holy
acts to Him, in whose name and tor whose
glory it is builded. AS he, as on this day,
was presented in the ancient house. in
the substance of our flesh, so now he takes
His place here, makes this His rest HIS holy
hill, the Shrine and Temple of His presence
And if he makes the place His, it is for your
sakes, that he NAV abide with you. This Is
your house now, your home, new IN one
sense vet old as nodded after the original
Yours, because given out of your faith and
PRAYERS and substance. Yours, because con-
tinuing the constant witness of the faith,
upon which you have lived these many years.
Yours. because grsced and solemnized with
the me n,ories of those VINO have loved and
abored with you in the past, and whose names
while traced here in apprecabie form,are now
written in Heaven. Above sill the greater
House and the more enduring is still before
US That which is perfect is yet to ccme.
Seek to prepare for the perfect. Let charac-
ter grow in steadfastness. in proportion, IN
beauty, zealouslv, patiently, in love. Time
hastens. He is here to lead US ththerward,
to be the presence of this place, and in the
Eternal City to be our glory, and our exceed
ing great reward. Wherefore, lie; u. lift up
our hearts, "Send out Thy l;GFt and Thy
truth that they NAV lead me-. and bring me
to Thy holy hill and to Thy dwelling.
"Arise, o Lord. into Thy resting place Zion
and the ark OF Thy strength"
The following were the chief features OF
the musical portion of the service.
yenite and Proper Psalms-Chants.
Te Deum-Baker in F.
Beredicus-Chaut.
Introit. HYMN xsl-Ancient Melody.
K,rie and Gloria Tibi-Baker in I.
Anthem 80 be joyful'-Tours in +.
Oaertory, Send out Thy light" Gounod.
Sursence Cordially Service.
Sanctus-Baker in F.
Commut ion Hymn 20q-Garrett.
Giori in Excelsis-Baker in +.
Nunc Dim'ttis-Nesey in T:
kecessionnl Hymn 2ol-Wesley.
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